With their 3-1 loss to the Montreal Canadiens on Saturday night at the Prudential Center, the New Jersey Devils were eliminated from playoff contention. This marks the first time since 1996 that the Devils will not be one of the eight teams to represent the Eastern Conference in the playoffs.
With four games remaining, the Devils must look to end the season on a positive note. After all, th...

Things just have not gone right for the Stars down the stretch and it very likely could cost them a playoff spot. They squandered vital games against teams they needed to beat over the past few weeks: two late game tying goals and then extra time losses both to Anaheim, losses to Phoenix, Nashville, and Los Angeles, and getting thrashed 6-0 in San Jose the other night.
The Stars could have cont...

The New Jersey Devils have yet to be mathematically eliminated from the Eastern Conference playoff race, and they are keeping the pressure on the teams above them in the standings as they hope to somehow sneak into the coveted eighth seed. Defenseman Andy Greene did his part last night to keep the Devils' hopes alive as he scored the game-winning goal late in the third period to give the Devi...

With one goal absorbing the mind-set of an entire team, the Toronto Maple Leafs rolled into the Motor City on a quest to keep pace within their current Eastern Conference Playoff dash. As the Buffalo Sabres, and Carolina Hurricanes regained ground with victories on Friday and with both teams in action tonight, the task at hand once again became vital to the post-season life of the 2010-2011 Map...

Davis Payne is faced with the difficult task of convincing the members of the St. Louis Blues that they should play hard down the stretch in the role of spoilers. This has got to be agonizing for the second year NHL coach. Nobody (except everyone outside of St. Louis and a handful of people whom follow hockey very closely) planned on the St. Louis Blues finishing the season outside of the playo...

Ilya Kovalchuk is certainly earning his keep these days. Kovalchuk's 23rd goal of the season came with 24.9 seconds left in overtime to propel the Devils past the Pittsburgh Penguins, 2-1. Kovalchuk's game-winner was his second in a row, and ninth of the season. With the win, the Devils now sit nine points behind eighth-place Carolina.
The first period ended without either team finding t...

If the Buffalo Sabres want to get into the 2011 edition of the Stanley Cup Playoffs they will need to make a move or two at the NHL Trade Deadline on Monday. Buffalo, who currently sits 3 points out of the the 8th and final playoff spot in the Eastern Conference, need to make a charge and fast. Granted the Sabres do have two games in hand on the 8th place Carolina Hurricanes, but that mea...

It's that time of year again when many NHL teams begin to contemplate which direction they are going in. Are they close enough to being a Stanley Cup contender or are they closer to winning the Adam Larsson sweepstakes? Should they add a few pieces and make a run at the cup or should they trade what they have for draft picks?
The Blue Jackets are in a tough position as they are in 13th pla...

David Reid, a fellow Pats Blogger at this site recently posted this article CLICK ON ME as a preview of the Jets v. Pats Part III or as the NY Post called it…RETURN OF THE JET-I! Well, in true American fashion, I have chosen to post my retort to the points that David had posted.Please keep in mind that the font emphasis was added by me and that David's comments were put in italics by me t...

Two Timing Brady and his two Baby Mamas
Antonio Cromartie and I are very different. He is a world class athlete, I am a Saturday co-ed league athlete. He has 7 different kids with 7 different women, I have 2 kids with one woman. BUT, we both agree on one thing, we hate Tom Brady. So when Cromartie says “Tom Brady is an ass****” I completely agree. In fact, I will go one better…...

It’s the topic on every football fan’s lips this week: the West Division champion Seattle Seahawks qualifying for the NFC playoffs last Sunday with a lowly 7-9 record.
Most in the media are defending the NFL’s playoff criteria, saying it’s a freak occurrence for a losing team to qualify and that it’s nothing to fret about.
I’d agree, so far as it’s important to give the Seahawks t...

The Buffalo Bills have finished the season with a record of 4-12. A 38-7 loss against the New York Jets was the final nail in the coffin for the Bills. The second half of the season saw Buffalo get 4 wins which was a great improvement from the first half in which they went winless.
Today's game was what it was. Another season in which the Bills didn't go to the playoffs and another meaningles...